skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think space is a little like an insanely low-friction version of water, i.e. a quantum foam [1] (or similar fluctuations caused by the structure of space-time). It may not be perceivable but it would mean that space could exert a drag in the same way water does. You could imagine it pulling out energy from a photon and red-shifting it, until eventually it just absorbed it. If that was true, it would also add a distance-based offset for all observations of the Universe and affects things like the Hubble constant

As I understand it, expansion of the universe is expansion of the fabric of spacetime. It's not about objects just travelling away from each other. Thus the quantum foam friction analogy (even if true) wouldn't really apply.

> We have simulated closed-loop systems of many kinds, I think we can make educated guesses about how they may behave.

Don't mistake the incompleteness of our models for the truth. They are approximations for testing out ideas about the universe but that doesn't mean the approximations themselves exist.

> As long as all state transitions undergo a reversible function, it should eventually return to its original state?

But we know that non-reversible functions exist, both in terms of entropy and time irreversibility, & these functions happen all the time in our universe.

> Then where did that energy go?

Waste heat that can't be recovered to reverse entropy because it's already diffused throughout the universe & thus there's no local maximum to exploit. That's what the heat death of the universe refers to.
I have built a few different pieces of software around the idea of pacing. The idea of pacing is that if you can measure the progress of something (i.e. current/goal), you can compare that to the time progress (i.e. elapsed time/total time) to tell you how far ahead or behind you are from completing the goal in time. Basically, you can tell if you are "on pace" with any measurable goal. If you're not on pace, it can tell you how much you need to do to catch up.

I used this to write papers by putting in how many words I needed to write and how many words I had written into a web app that I made for pacing. I made a widget for my watch that shows me if I am on pace with how many steps I want to take every day. And the big one, using it to pace out when I spend time on distracting apps on my phone. If the amount of time I have spent on distracting apps is behind the pace, then I can use the app otherwise it kicks me out.

I'm sure they are more applications I haven't thought of. I haven't made the code public yet, but I could if people are interested.
It's not quite like that. Apple's RAM is in the SoC package, it might be closer to 20$, but still.
Not sure if you're being snark, like referring to your office at work, but we did this and it works pretty well. We ran the cables along the edges of wall/floor using little cable clamps. They're pretty much out of sight and it works great. Depending on your house you could also run them through the walls/attic/etc. There's a lot of ways to make it work without going bachelor pad.
> you'd expect the market to deal with it how it normally does

I expect it to work just like it did with human health care. People happened before pets.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/burgeoning-r...

The short term effect of VCs managing budgets might mean more support for public health initiatives (which the AMA has historically opposed) because they lower costs. So maybe we'll all be a little less sick or even a little less fat. Assuming they can focus on timespans longer than 3 months.

I'm concerned about what MBAs can do to us all after that honeymoon period because there are less benevolent ways to cut expenses, too.
The only thing that has me thinking 'ah that would be nice' over my m1 version is that it's lighter, especially with the new magic keyboard. With the keyboard, mine is heavy as hell.

Frustratingly, I can't find a weight spec for the magic keyboards, so I have no idea whether it's significantly lighter or what.
I'm a non-native Dutch speaker and even I catch it, a sentence that looks like a 1-on-1 translation from English and than I have to think, no, this can't be proper Dutch.

Exectly the same thing happens to my native language. What causes it? I guess the overwhelming viewership of English spoken to control, so people actually start thinking in English, and translate their thoughts badly when they need to express themselves in their native languages.
Sounds like a terrible local government. Have you considered moving away? Local governments compete with each other to attract taxpayers, and if enough people leave they'll be forced to change their political structure.
Apple Vision Pro, Rabbit, and Humane Pin are three recent customer tech toys that dared to be even a little different.

The AVP is an expensive tech demo and the other two AI bubble stillbirths, but that was not what you were looking for.
Fair enough. I was just thinking of base ChaCha state without the buffering. 300B is still significantly better than mt19937 (~2.5kB) or the old Go generator (4.9kB!).
At entry level fore sure, but not everyone is going to be equal after 5-10 years of experience. They'll all be able to code of course, but some will have gained valuable experience and moved on in capability and some won't, which of course is why you interview to be selective - to find those who can do more than just regurgitate LeetCode solutions.
Interesting... maybe the respective comparison was Matlab to Python and Fortran to C/C++? This sentence actually had three parallel clauses.

But that was a great nit to find.
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For me, I have found nix home manager to be the most effective solution for managing my dotfiles.

The migration process was easy, and I was able to use it to replace my sim link script with it's file directives.

It also integrates well with my Nixos Systems.
Key paragraph, in my opinion:

> My peers and I wanted our country to have clean streets, polite police, and government officials who would resign at the exposure of petty corruption scandals. We wanted to be able to start businesses without passing money under the table, and to trust that courts of law would render justice. What we did not want were irremovable, lifetime dictators who packed the government with cronies on the take and sent goons to beat us up in the streets.

Putin and his fans think it's NATO expansion policies that brainwashes "the woke" to want to join the "western" (NATO/US/EU) sphere of influence, so attacking Ukraine to stop that is fair game, or "It's their fault they got attacked, they wanted to join 'the west'!". But what people want are clear laws and predictable officials, not ones that make up crap as they go along (as well as depending on the size of your "donation") to benefit themselves.

Not that the "west" can be seen as clean, it even managed to elect Trump, who's now stacked the justice system with his followers and is looking to steal the election by appointing corrupt officials state-by-state. And as much as the EU is better than the alternative, it's a huge joke, with people like Jean-Claude Juncker who was not pro-public but pro-corporations, and the inept Van der Leyen (barf) who's there because (I assume) cronyism. Or the way they're handling crimes against humanity depending on which aggressor country is commiting the murder of innocent civilians... No fucking wonder people are buying the lies of populists saying they'll make shit great again.

For more on corruption and how it makes the citizenry give up on its government, this is a nice article/review of a book on that topic: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/01/19/corruption-rev...
Huh, you raise a good point. I'd seen plenty of that, too.

I still predict this will play out in the tech press as bad news for Bluesky, if only so that journalists can hope to get credit for their hot take.
I love to see infrastructure jobs like this that don't interfere with people's daily lives. A similar feeling when I watch the Japanese build a subway in just 3 hours: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BYW4YYqG5A

Meanwhile, just down the road from me, we've had a major bridge closed since April of last year, and is due to reopen October 2024....

Videos like this should be a lesson to Civic planners everywhere.
We have a decent amount of h100 sxm availability on demand on tensordock right now at far less than runpods h100 pcie price
> not component to component

that's honestly kind of stupid when discussing things like 'new CPU!' like this thread.

I'm not saying the M4 isn't a great platform, but holy cow the corporate tripe people gobble up.
Two different M4 chips come with the new iPad Pro depending on the selected storage capacity.

> Apple M4 chip
Models with 256GB or 512GB storage:
9-core CPU with 3 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
10-core GPU

> Models with 1TB or 2TB storage:
10-core CPU with 4 performance cores and 6 efficiency cores
10-core GPU
I've worked on some titles very similar to Yakuza and I keep espousing the way they develop their titles. I don't know for sure because I haven't worked at the studio but it really seems like they've streamlined their development to keep costs down and allow them to develop quickly via asset reuse and resisting major engine upgrades across titles in favor of a slower, more focused pace.

Often in my experience in the west we tend to re-author assets, do major engine upgrades or re-implement gameplay systems across sequels when we could have iterated on existing systems and use the time we saved to work on new stuff.
Jobs at software companies in the US. Other industries don't pay very much for technical talent.

$40k is extremely low for a senior role. Even in places like India or China.
This may be some nuance I'm not quite getting still. You're saying that even if you use the coefficient encoding, one would still have reason to store polynomials in the CRT domain. I agree that would be more performant, but it seems not useful because then your element-wise products only ever correspond to convolutions (as I mention in the article). As far as I can tell, everyone does Double-CRT with RNS encoding, but I may be mistaken.
The twin in question was not a trans woman, he was a trans man.
I find that heating cold brew reintroduces some of the flavor of hot brewed coffee, though I've never been able to pinpoint a mechanism for it.
It might also mean that if you know JS then use AdonisJS. Which has become Rails of JS and is pretty old and mature too.
iOS has become such a waste of great hardware, especially in the larger form factor of the iPad.

M1 chips, great screens, precise pencil input and keyboard support, but we still aren't permitted a serious OS on it, to protect the monopolistic store.

App Stores have beeen around long enough to prove that they're little more than laboratories in which to carry out accelerated enshittification experimentation. Everything so dumbed down and feature-light, yet demanding subscriptions or pushing endless scammy ads. And games that are a shameless introduction to gambling addiction, targeted at kids.

Most of the 'apps' that people actually use shouldn't need to be native apps anyway, they should be websites. And now we get the further enshittification of trying to force people out of the browser and into apps, not for a better experience, but for a worse one, where more data can be harvested and ads can't so easily be blocked...
Hey Felix,
i have not implemented it yet, but it's planned for the near future!

Thanks Felix
The main attraction of living downtown is there's lots of life with the people around: plentiful meetups for whatever you like, more neighbors for friends, more people to socialize. There's a large, living, breathing, constantly-changing ecosystem that's self-rearranging of bars for all tastes (including non-alcoholic); chain stores and indie ones; parks for to frolic; restaurants and food trucks of all shapes and flavors; entertainment venues; parades to savor; sports games, stand-up, concerts and shows; city festivals, conventions, expos; all that and more within walkable distance.

If your work is nearby, that's just chef's kiss, then.
Show HN: Skyrim – Open-source Large Weather Model (LWM) Zoo
Hi HN, I'm Efe from Secondlaw AI. We are building physics-informed large AI models. Currently, we are focusing on weather modelling.

To benchmark SOTA, we had to build a forecasting infra for all available large weather models and we could not find a solid tooling to do so, so we built Skyrim. Within <5 mins and <5 LOC you can run forecasts on par with global weather models that are run on 100K+ CPU HPCs!

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The MacBook Air is better for sure, and if you only buy one, buy that one -- full stop.

But I use both, every day, at the same time. They are designed to work together. With universal control, my iPad sits next to my screen at work, and I do some things on the iPad, some on the MacBook. I also use my iPad on its own around the house. It's also incredibly nice for CAD work (Shapr3d) and photo processing (Lightroom).

The iPad is much more resilient to water, food, and dust. I design things in Shapr3d on the iPad and take the iPad to the garage to build them -- a little sawdust does not hurt it and it's easy to clean. It's also much better if you want to read while eating, especially with kids around. The keyboard doesn't get in the way and spilled water won't hurt it either. I use it while cooking and to watch TV while washing dishes.

The other thing the iPad can do that the MBA can't is that it's easily shareable. If you work with others, it's easy to pull up a PDF on an iPad and hand it to someone to look at or even annotate with the pencil. There is no awkward standing over your shoulder or handing off a laptop. Everyone instantly knows how to work with you on the iPad, and to review whatever you want them to review and hand it back.

Overall I still use my MacBook Air more, and it's more capable. You can't do serious coding or development work on the iPad, for example. But it's very much worth having the iPad as well, at least for me.
I'll echo what the other reply said. I wanted to use it like a digital whiteboard in meetings, but the flow just isn't there.

Yes, drawing on it in isolation is great, but it hasn't otherwise worked out like I hoped.
Another aspect that's frustrating: only one user per device!
If they like coding and didn't want to prioritize career advancement I would tell them to put effort into finding the projects (or parts of projects) they find more interesting to code and make sure they get assigned that. My advice was always personalized. The thing is that for most early career engineers they are already coding enough (and it's not like the code is generally particularly interesting) so most of the time the advice is to do more docs since the lack of docs was hurting them for perf/grad but it varied from individual to individual
I don't see a functional difference between copy-paste and autoimport. They have more or less the same risks.

Imports should rarely be manually managed directly in source. Doing that is the epitome of tedium and most imports are just boilerplate, so your eyes will glaze over and you'll miss the finer points unless a specific file warrants deeper scrutiny.

That doesn't mean imports should never be reviewed, and again, I think the tools need a lot of improvement in this regard.
I lead the Zulip project, feel free to stop by chat.zulip.org to discuss what you're trying to do.

Just to clarify for anyone here reading, Zulip can be scaled out, but largely our philosophy is that you should only scale out if you need to, since it comes with extra fiddly operational headaches and is expensive in dollars. We've designed Zulip with an efficient data model and well-indexes queries, and are constantly working as we add new features to maintain the property that only multi-tenant installations like Zulip Cloud should need to scale it out.

In particular, Zulip on a single server with 16GB of RAM can handle 10,000s of users, thousands of which are concurrently active. (That's what we use for chat.zulip.org, for example, and the machine is usually about 96% idle with only half its memory used).

(Keep in mind that Zulip's public access option means you don't need every user to create an account in order to access content).

I don't know your context, so I can't comment on whether zulip would be suitable. But there are very few communities today having complex conversations involving 100K+ people in a single organization/workspace, so I would expect it to be quite rare that autoscaling would be relevant. (Certainly there are Discords with over a million users, like the Midjourney one, but most of those users are just users the product, not having discussions at all; the company famously made the unusual decision to only offer a Discord bot as UI for their product).

https://zulip.readthedocs.io/en/latest/production/requiremen... has some basic guidelines on Zulip's scalability for a single-instance deployment, but those are fairly conservative -- the goal is for folks to be able to deploy with those settings and be safe even if their load profile per user is fairly heavy for whatever reason.
I'm guessing that the "ML accelerator" in the CPU cores means one of ARM's SME extensions for matrix multiplication. SME in ARM v8.4-A adds dot product instructions. v8.6-A adds more, including BF16 support.

https://community.arm.com/arm-community-blogs/b/architecture...
Related. Others?

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The same in Europe, zoning laws are a bitch and they're basically existing for bribes. Many local city counsellors get paid off to change the zoning laws and thus raise the price of the briber's property.
Political foes join forces to fix SF's job-killing business tax
You're shocked now, just wait until it happens with 9/11.
Didn’t he have to use two PPC procs to get the equivalent perf you’d get on a P3?

Just add them up, it’s the same number of Hertz!

But Steve that’s two procs vs one!

I think this is when Adobe was optimizing for Windows/intel and was single threaded, but Steve put out some graphs showing better perf on the Mac.
Real creative pros will likely be using a 10G Thunderbolt NIC to a SAN; local video editing is not advised unless it’s only a single project at a time.

Unless you are a solo editor.
Learning and Reviewing System Internals: Tactics and Psychology
Ah, just posted that I detect a change in flavor after I heat cold brew (but didn't know a mechanism behind it)!
Yes, please! To me it feels like 90% of road works I pass actually has nobody there working at all. Some go on for years it seems.

Another option is what they do in Japan - just get 10X the number of people on it, with all the tools for the entire job and then do it all overnight.

Also, nice to see good old "dude with shovel" in there, a tool that would have looked the same back in the 19th century.
It's probably overnight to set it in position, but it looks like it has wheels so they can probably move it down the road in an overnight hour or so.

It's basically a one-time capital cost for the "mobile bridge" and then they can use it repeatedly; not sure it really ends up being better overall than the usual American "divide and conquer" method used, where they do a lane at a time and divert traffic around. The denser the area the more valuable it'll be, I presume.
Yeah where are the bfloat16 numbers for the neural engine? For AMD you can at least divide by four to get the real number. 16 TOPS -> 4 tflops within a mobile power envelope is pretty good for assisting CPU only inference on device. Not so good if you want to run an inference server but that wasn't the goal in the first place.

What irritates me the most though is people comparing a mobile accelerator with an extreme high end desktop GPU. Some models only run on a dual GPU stack of those. Smaller GPUs are not worth the money. NPUs are primarily eating the lunch of low end GPUs.
Unless you find out it's potted, the BMS needs to be reprogrammed and there's a custom mesh or holder that doesn't work with some standard cells because of tolerances...
The two means of egress cannot lead into the same path (the hallway) since the point is to provide an alternate escape path.
Correct, virtualenv isolates package installation but doesn't handle installing or managing arbitrary Python versions.

Node.js is similar with npm.

Is there something like nvm but for Python?
I think the reality is that there is not yet enough sale pressure. So units are not coming to market. This will likely change when the recession actually hits.
In addition to the other points brought up, you're comparing global flight statistics with US driving statistics. Fatal commercial aviation accident rates are heavily region dependent. If I recall correctly, the number of fatal aviation accidents on scheduled US commercial flights over the last decade is zero. Meanwhile, some other regions are vastly less safe: for example, while this was some number of years ago, I remember a statistic of flights in Africa accounting for single-digit percentages of global flights and a quarter of passenger fatalities.
It's a moving target, but if you encourage the sources of the most prevalent items to use packaging that isn't single us plastic, you'd bring down the totals. There would still definitely be a long tail of packaging.
AI for voices is such a catch-22. On one hand, you don't want to open that box of pandora and/or alienate human VAs. OTOH, if the choice is between no VO, and AI VO, well, I'd be ok with AI VO, but it's a slippery slope for sure.
> What data do you store on an iPad Air?

Games. You can put maybe three or four significant games on an iPad Air before it maxes out. (MTG Arena is almost 20GB all on it's own, Genshin Impact is like 40+ GB)
Does anyone know what make this better than just stirring for three minutes?
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So the REST API has no replacement?
You don't need to. You compute a static huffman tree over fixed probabilities you've estimated or generated from a corpus.
Does cold brew served hot taste good? I have never really considered asking for it hot before simply because I thought it would just be like regular coffee. But, I guess if regular coffee tastes different cold and hot, cold brew should too.
Suspected China hack hits UK's defense ministry
> Some of them are just plain bizaree too eg swipe up, right, up to get your apps.

What on Earth are you referring to?
Wasn’t the case earlier in development since they didn’t have big financial backing, Ghost Ship only grew after DRG had sales

> Deep Rock Galactic aired a trailer at E3 2017, then the game had a huge bump after its Steam Early Access and Xbox Game Preview launch in February 2018. Its Early Access didn't skyrocket the game "insanely high" like titles such as Valheim, but Pedersen said it was solid enough to know they had a success. At that time there were only 12 employees, and everyone was contracted "because we didn't know if we'd have money the next month."

https://gamerant.com/deep-rock-galactic-interview-ghost-ship...
> It used to be that if you sold one house and bought another for same price then there would be no appreciation taxes, but that stopped a few(?) years ago.

The IRS's 121 Home Sale Exclusion still applies which allows you to exclude $250,000 ($500,000 if married) of capital gains on the sale of your primary residence. For an investment property, you can also do a like-kind exchange to defer taxes.